Circle from the Cleave Inn

... using spare cam after main cam failed spectacularly ...

KC reunited with his dad, Archangel

... after three weeks on holiday at Cruisedog Towers with Mr Cruisedog ... but he's overjoyed to see his master again - as you can see ... Mr Cruisedog and I will miss him ... a lovely little lad.

Well, here we are ...

... at the Cleave Inn at Trusham ...

And after ...

... our return from a very muddy, slippery and obviously wet excursion over the cliff tops ...

It's all panning out ...

... exactly as we feared ...

Before ...

... Mr Cruisedog and I exito less than rapido Cruisedog Towers in the pouring rain ...

Drat and double drat!

We're going to get

... wet, Wally, tonight ...

All quiet on the western front (of Maidencombe)

Everything back to normal for Mr Cruisedog's nightly cliff top patrol. Both vixens relaxed and confident and the old badger boar snatched a banana from my hand. There are three things that disturb rural foxes: the presence of humans - especially off road; windy conditions which always 'spook' them ... and heavy rain - like cats, foxes dislike getting wet - badgers don't care.

Have to go out later tonight

... as our last port of call is near a holiday cottage let. Last night at about 01:15 am the lights were on and they were pretty noisy - so much so that My Vixen (not to be confused with Meadow Vixen, higher up and to the north of Maidencombe) was decidedly spooked and Mr Cruisedog and I had to wait for about twenty minutes for her to summon up courage to approach. I'll tell you how we got on a bit later ...